Jarl Van Hoother
Ok, here's what I have so far. I'll be using the symbol system put down below.
W you may recall is the collective unconcious as put forth in the writings of C.G. Jung, but it is also the "Morphogenetic Unconcious" of Rupert Sheldrake, and the "Storehouse mind" of Buddhism. On this level we find the archetypal heroes of myth, legend, and religion (if those 3 things can be seperated meaningfully). Adam is in the very first sentence. We find him "delvin and his madameen (Eve) spinning watersilts". Noah is here in the form of 40 days of rain, and Finn Mac Cool whose young bride Grania could not resist the "love spot" on Dermot, and ran away with him (be dermot, who come to the keep of his inn...) and (...she washed the blessings of the lovespots off the jiminy).
][ Represents the Daughter of the waking ego (HCE) as the Dummy. "...the jiminy hillary and the dummy in their first infancy were below on the tearsheet,wringing and coughing, like brodar and hister (brother and sister).
C A The sons here are Tristopher and Hilary owing their names to Giordano Bruno's "In tristitia hilaris, hilaritate tristis" (in sorrow joy, in joy sorrow). They are jiminies (gemini or twins), Tristopher being Shaun the postman and Hilary is Shem the penman. After the Prankquean (^ALP) has taken each of them in turn, they transform alchemically into their opposites: Larryhill and Toughertrees.
X The systems of four (judges, evangelists, etc) are the "four owlers masters" (Owls being sacred to Athena; Goddess of juries) and "four larksical monitrix"
[] is representative of spacetime, and is always plural in the Wake. In the very opening lines of the JVH sequence it is both the garden of Eden ("Adam was delvin and his madameen spinning watersilts") and Dublin, Howth castle specifically home of the Earl of Howth (Jarl is earl in Scandinavian)
I owe this information to the previously mentioned Synchronicity and Isomorphism
article by RAW, and also to Joseph Campbell's A skeleton key to Finnegans Wake and William York Tindall's A reader's guide to Finnegans Wake. In the process of writng this blog entry I also found http://www.kirbymountain.com/WitchesBrew.pdf this very helpful and well written article.
On to ALP
W you may recall is the collective unconcious as put forth in the writings of C.G. Jung, but it is also the "Morphogenetic Unconcious" of Rupert Sheldrake, and the "Storehouse mind" of Buddhism. On this level we find the archetypal heroes of myth, legend, and religion (if those 3 things can be seperated meaningfully). Adam is in the very first sentence. We find him "delvin and his madameen (Eve) spinning watersilts". Noah is here in the form of 40 days of rain, and Finn Mac Cool whose young bride Grania could not resist the "love spot" on Dermot, and ran away with him (be dermot, who come to the keep of his inn...) and (...she washed the blessings of the lovespots off the jiminy).
][ Represents the Daughter of the waking ego (HCE) as the Dummy. "...the jiminy hillary and the dummy in their first infancy were below on the tearsheet,wringing and coughing, like brodar and hister (brother and sister).
C A The sons here are Tristopher and Hilary owing their names to Giordano Bruno's "In tristitia hilaris, hilaritate tristis" (in sorrow joy, in joy sorrow). They are jiminies (gemini or twins), Tristopher being Shaun the postman and Hilary is Shem the penman. After the Prankquean (^ALP) has taken each of them in turn, they transform alchemically into their opposites: Larryhill and Toughertrees.
X The systems of four (judges, evangelists, etc) are the "four owlers masters" (Owls being sacred to Athena; Goddess of juries) and "four larksical monitrix"
[] is representative of spacetime, and is always plural in the Wake. In the very opening lines of the JVH sequence it is both the garden of Eden ("Adam was delvin and his madameen spinning watersilts") and Dublin, Howth castle specifically home of the Earl of Howth (Jarl is earl in Scandinavian)
I owe this information to the previously mentioned Synchronicity and Isomorphism
article by RAW, and also to Joseph Campbell's A skeleton key to Finnegans Wake and William York Tindall's A reader's guide to Finnegans Wake. In the process of writng this blog entry I also found http://www.kirbymountain.com/WitchesBrew.pdf this very helpful and well written article.
On to ALP
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